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Moving On

Annie Lennox’s new home is a far cry from her old family abode. She has recently bought a five-storey property off Ladbroke Grove, west London. All summer it has been covered in scaffolding as the builders remodelled it to her precise requirements. The largest house in the street, neighbours believe that it must have sold for about £4m. It is a long way from the Aberdeen in which she grew up, daughter of a shipyard worker. The erstwhile Eurythmic is separated from her second husband, the film maker Uri Fruchtmann, with whom she used to share a six-bedroom Georgian house in Highgate.

The crowded shelves of Scottish magazines are joined this week by a new contender — Uptown. Among the usual glossy mag fare, the launch edition contains the first extract from that middle-class homemakers’ bible — Sir Terence Conran’s House Book. So how has a start-up Glasgow-based mag secured such a